Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries (Encounters, 23) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788925289 ISBN 13: 9781788925280

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2021

Synopsis

The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated. 

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About the Authors

Anna de Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics in the Italian Department and Affiliated Faculty with the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University. Her interests focus on narrative, discourse and identity, discourse practices among immigrant and transnational communities, and super-diversity. She has published extensively on these topics. Among her recent publications are the co-edited volumes Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies (2020, with A. Georgakopoulou Cambridge University Press) and Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries (2021, with G. Mazzaferro, Multilingual Matters).

Gerardo Mazzaferro is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of Translanguaging as Everyday Practice (2018, Springer).

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788925289
• ISBN 13: 9781788925280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: De Fina Anna, Mazzaferro Gerardo